When hard drives go bad

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So yesterday I'm on ye Dell and, after watching the 2004 Mazda RX-8 Technical Highlights CD, I decide to put the videos on a CD-R, cause it's cool and I probably won't see the CD again anytime soon. So I get the videos on the desktop, put in a blank CD-R, go into Roxio, and begin the process. 1 CD-R dead. There was an underburn error or something. So I thought maybe it was a fluke, so I try another. Same thing. And another. And I tried another and changed what I had on the disc, but it didn't work either. 4 CDs dead, I decide to check out the errors and see how to correct them. I wasn't in any other programs, so it wasn't that. Then it said that restarting the computer might help. So I did...I tried atleast.

It started to restart normally, then flashed a blue screen, and started over. And over. Infinately. I tried everything. This thing couldn't crank.

Meanwhile I begin to simi panic because I know my dad's gonna hang me on this cause I was on the computer when it happened. I tell my mom and she's like "He's gonna be pissed" and then my bro gets home, so I tell him, and he's like "Computer killer" and I just ignore him, go to my room, and await my dad coming home.

I heard the door open, several "hi"s and a summary of what he did at work. Then I hear "I'm going to keep him off this and delete all of his stuff!!" and then the foot steps to my door. "What did you do?! I'll keep you off it!!" and I explained but he was still mad, so what better to do then run to my room, lock the door, put some staples in the wall, throw some stuff, and lay down and see what's on Dish.

My dad calls Dell after playing with our now unrecessable computer, and finds out it was a hard drive failure. And it wasn't my fault. But he still blames me a bit. So then we are computerless...then how am I on here?

Back in 2002 I guess when we got the Dell, our 1996 Compaq Presario went to, guess who, me. I set it up under my bed, and used it for hybridding on GT3. After getting bored with hybridding, it just sat. So last night, I brought it all out, and set it up on my dining room table. And it works. Viper wheel from a 1/18 scale model(for lack of anything Mazda that would fit and work) as the volume knob and all. Then my dad appologizes, cause I set the old one up so we have something(first my dad said that he would use the laptop he had to buy, but that hasn't been out of it's case since the night he got it).

Dell is supposed to send us a hard drive by this Friday under warrenty, and a person to install it.

Anyone here know if you can take files off of a failied hard drive? I really hope so...
 
Nope, not unless somehow the support guy can fix it enough to start it again. You have to make back-ups of your more important files before it goes just in case this happens. Tough luck bro.
 
Ahh damnit. Well maybe the Dell guy can either get it started or take the hard drive back to dell and then get it working enough to get the stuff onto CDs.

Atleast I had most of my Mazda commercials on a CD...but I lost the screensavers, the Rev-It-Up pics, everything. It hurts. Ohh well I guess.
 
Junk? Screw you. It was more than that. I had a lot of stuff. Pics of our cars and stuff. I had like 1gig of my stuff alone.
 
Junk? Screw you. It was more than that. I had a lot of stuff. Pics of our cars and stuff. I had like 1gig of my stuff alone.
 
Woah, Mazkid. That really bites. I hope you get your stuff back. And I completely understand the "mad father" account almost too well when it comes to computers.

Good luck.
 
Aah, that sucks. Our computer's completely hosed, I'm on my dad's laptop. Lost about 500 meg of Photoshop work, and 700 meg of downloaded music, including 400+ car pictures...
 
Originally posted by MazKid
Anyone here know if you can take files off of a failied hard drive? I really hope so...
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You can, you will just have to pay a lot of money. You have to find a place that does it, and they can attempt to image the data, or use it as a secondary hard drive. My dad had it done once. It worked. Pretty expensive also. I think it cost us more than 200 bucks, becuase we had to pay for another hard drive to replace it.
 
It happened to me too, without the flickering. I was just using the computer when all of a sudden it shut down itself and I began to smell some smoke. So I tried restarting, but It would just sit still at the Compaq logo. I tried using the recovering Cd, but it still didnt work. Lucky, we still had the warranty, so they installed a new hardrive and motherboard. The tech guy took the burnt hardrive.
 
Yea it sucks. When my dad got Charnoble virus on the Presario all of our stuff was wiped out, but at that time it didn't really matter to me. Now it does.
 
So far, I have had memory breakdowns twice. The first time, I lost all my Napster music files, downloaded with a 56k modem. I had just 75 songs, but I liked them.

The second time, I lost all the files from my messenger buddies, pictures, logs, everything. And again Music files from Audiologic.

This is the third time, and thats why I have lost faith on the storage security on this computer. Ironically the first two shareware music programs have gone down with my computer.
 
Well I had about 200mb of videos that I was going to put on a CD, but I never got the chance. I also had the game Racer, and the RX-8 and RX-3 that I was working on, and tons of tracks and other cars. All downloaded on a 28K connection.
 
the files are damaged. You could possibly try to recover them and send them to a place that will fix them for you, but it will take alot of time and alot of money (and they won't even be the same way...)
 
Originally posted by Timmotheus
You can, you will just have to pay a lot of money. You have to find a place that does it, and they can attempt to image the data, or use it as a secondary hard drive. My dad had it done once. It worked. Pretty expensive also. I think it cost us more than 200 bucks, becuase we had to pay for another hard drive to replace it.
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Read this JPEC.
 
Dam dude, I feel for you:eek:I had almost the same experience onse when I was on our old 486 and all of a sudden it froze up I rebooted and it never came back,and just like you my dad about kiked my azz.
So he took it to a guy that knows alot about puters,and found out that the cofig.sys and auto.bat had a virus, but the funny thing is,at that time we had just gotten the Internet and the only one who ever got online back then was my dad.I still rag on him today about that:lol: :D :lol:
 
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Dam dude, I feel for you:eek:I had almost the same experience onse when I was on our old 486 and all of a sudden it froze up I rebooted and it never came back,and just like you my dad about kiked my azz.
So he took it to a guy that knows alot about puters,and found out that the cofig.sys and auto.bat had a virus, but the funny thing is,at that time we had just gotten the Internet and the only one who ever got online back then was my dad.I still rag on him today about that:lol: :D :lol:
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:lol: hahahahah funny
 
Originally posted by Timmotheus
You can, you will just have to pay a lot of money. You have to find a place that does it, and they can attempt to image the data, or use it as a secondary hard drive. My dad had it done once. It worked. Pretty expensive also. I think it cost us more than 200 bucks, becuase we had to pay for another hard drive to replace it.
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Heh, i've managed to total several HDD's, although they have only ever had the OS and programs on them. I usually keep the actuall data on a second drive, mainly because the drive with an operating system is probably the more likely drive to fail, especially the with the RDB (bootable part). Mind you i've managed to short out a drives circuitry, with a dodgy molex and then killed drives due to large amounts of bad sectors (although these were mainly old old drives).

From what i've read from Mazkid's story it seems that he is getting a blue screen, that doesn't seem to be an indication of hdd failure. Unless it has a specific error message.
 
hmm... somthing just like that happend to my friend, he said it would boot up and all but the it would go to a blue screen really fast then restart. and all that I had to do was reinstall windows for him and it worked just fine, nothing was missing off the hdd and nothing was corrupt, so on that dell, id suggest trying to reinstall windows before you go out and buy a new hdd
 
Exactly, although there are a few blue screen errors i've seen that notify of a faulty drive. Although i've only experienced this with certain IBM laptop HDD's.

What version of windows does Mazda Kiddo use?
 
I'm on XP...the blue screen is un-readable because it only pops up for a split second before the process starts over again.
 
Well it's screwed now cause my dad was talking to a Dell guy and they told him to do all of this stuff, so now I can't really mess with it.
 

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